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AUSTRALIAN HOTELIER FEBRUARY 2016 | 11
IN REVIEW
WA MICROBREWERY WINS NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD
Northbridge Brewing Company, a 12-hectolitre microbrewery and pub in the centre of Perth, won the
National Building Design of the Year award at the National Building Design Awards.
The building abuts the Northbridge Piazza, a popular entertainment precinct that also comprises
restaurants, bars, nightclubs, boutiques and an open-air cinema. The venue itself contains the
functioning microbrewery – which patrons enter through – and the food and beverage spaces of a
traditional pub.
Ben Rasheed, Director of Northbridge Brewing Company, was very pleased with the win.
“We are thrilled that Northbridge Brewing Company and its designer Doug Paton [director of d4
Designs] have been recognised with such a high profile award.”
WEST VILLAGE SEES NEW
PUB GROUP LAUNCH
Entrepreneur James Bodel and former Drinkndine
shareholder Locky Paech, launched a new Sydney-
based pub group, Goodtime Hospitality. Their first
venue purchase was the White Cockatoo in Sydney’s
inner west from the McDonald family in December
2014, which was renovated and relaunched as West
Village this month.
Paech and Bodel looked at other pubs for their first
venture as Goodtime Hospitality before deciding on
the West Village venue. “We looked at four or five
venues seriously, but this venue made a lot of sense
as it’s in an up-and-coming suburb and has multiple
revenue streams, including gaming, accommodation
and a bottleshop,” stated Paech.
OXFORD HOTEL SELLS FOR $34M
The Iris Capital Group sold the Oxford
Hotel in Drummoyne, Sydney, to
private operators Michael Wiggins and
Joanne Cassar for $34 million. The hotel recently
underwent a $4m renovation and the sale was the
second largest gaming hotel transaction of 2015
following the $40m sale of the Oasis on Beamish
in May. Wiggins and Cassar will partly fund the
purchase of the Oxford Hotel through the $19m
sale of their pub the Royal Exhibition in Surry Hills.
EQUITY FIRM PURCHASES
URBAN PURVEYOR GROUP
Quadrant Private Equity purchased the Urban
Purveyor Group from John Szangolies for close to
$200 million. The hospitality group has a number
of venues in its portfolio along the east coast of
Australia, including 10 Bavarian Bier Cafés in
Sydney, Brisbane and on the Gold Coast. Also under
the group’s umbrella are the famed Löwenbräu
Keller, The Argyle, and Ananas Brasserie in Sydney;
along with four Saké Restaurant & Bars, in Sydney,
Melbourne and Brisbane.
Urban Purveyor Group CEO Thomas Pash said
it was an exciting time for the business, which is in
rapid expansion mode.
MERIVALE’S
PADDINGTON
OPEN FOR
BUSINESS
The Paddington, formerly The Paddington
Arms, launched this month. It’s the latest
pub Merivale has opened, in its recent run of
acquiring and developing eight hotels, bars and
restaurants in a 12-month period.
Merivale CEO Justin Hemmes, was very
pleased with the Paddington venue, saying: “We
are extremely excited to open in Paddington;
I have very fond memories of what Oxford
Street used to be and we are looking forward
to bringing some of that magic back to such an
iconic part of Sydney.”
SOLOMON HITS OUT
AT LOCKOUT LAWS
Bruce Solomon, CEO of Solotel, blasted the
Sydney lockout laws, saying that they have
destroyed part of what the city is all about.
Speaking at the AHA NSW Awards for Excellence,
where he was inducted into the hall of fame,
Solomon said that the laws leave tourists to the
harbour city “scratching their heads” wondering
why there is no late-night precinct.
Solomon’s speech met with a very receptive with
crowd, with statements including: “The stats are,
that yes, violence has dropped by 40 per cent in the
Cross since the lockouts came in. But the other side
of the coin is that there used to be 25,000 people
there on a Saturday night at two in the morning and
now there are 3000."
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